English-Icelandic translations for the chickens come home to roost

Definition of the chickens come home to roost

• A person's past wrongdoings will return to negatively affect them

Examples

• Opponents see the latest indictments as a case of the chickens coming home to roost.

Related words

• the chicken or the egg
• choke the chicken
• hit the chicken
• wake up with the chickens
• Mother Carey's chicken
• Mother Carey’s chicken
• don't count your chickens before they're hatched
• count one’s chickens before they hatch
• count one’s chickens before they’re hatched